We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"You can scale the product."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Azure Monitor vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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